Dogs Have No Hell
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Dogs Have No Hell |
| Country of production | Finland |
| original language | Finnish |
| Publishing year | 2002 |
| length | 10 mins |
| Rod | |
| Director | Aki Kaurismäki |
| script | Aki Kaurismäki |
| production | Aki Kaurismäki |
| music |
Marko Haavisto Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky |
| camera |
Timo Salminen Olli Varja |
| cut | Aki Kaurismäki |
| occupation | |
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Dogs Have No Hell is a short film by the Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki from 2002. It is the first part of the episode film Ten Minutes Older : The Trumpet, in which several directors deal with the subject of time in ten-minute contributions.
action
A man is released from police custody at 3:20 p.m. He was arrested for lying down on the train tracks while drunk. He takes his personal belongings and leaves the station of the railway police. Announcements can be heard over loudspeakers in the background. The man asks someone else when the train is going to Moscow. “At half-way” is the answer. The protagonist takes the escalator to the basement at 3:22 p.m. and leaves the station. He goes to a car repair shop that he set up with a friend. He wants to sell his share because he needs the money for a trip to Siberia, where he wants to drill for oil. He will not go alone, but with his future wife, who does not yet know anything about it - neither about the wedding nor about the trip.
Then the man goes to a bar, where he drinks a brandy. Marko Haavisto & Poutahaukat play live in the background . He sits down thoughtfully at a table, looks at a woman at the next table and exchanges glances with the waiter, who finally brings a kitchen assistant into the dining room. She remarks to the man that she has not seen him in ages. He asks her to come to Siberia with him. “The train driver is like a captain, he will trust us.” You arrive at the station at 3:27 pm. Suddenly she says she can't come with me because they don't have rings. So they buy wedding rings in the basement of the train station. When they want to buy tickets “to Siberia” and the saleswoman says that this is a big country, the man names Irkutsk as his destination . He buys the tickets and they just get on the train.
On the train, the woman asks why he doesn't sit down with her, whereupon he asks her to look out the window and see whether the fatherland is still there. Then he sits down with her.
background
In this short film, Kaurismäki wanted to try out the collaboration between Kati Outinen and Markku Peltola , who starred in his famous work The Man Without a Past , which was soon to be shot.
criticism
"Kaurismäki's cinematic stopwatch seems to be synchronized more with inner, psychological time than concrete minutes and seconds, and his protagonist seems to manage the past, present and future affairs of his life with the superior efficiency and success characteristic of the modern human being."
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dogs Have No Hell at elonet.fi (Finnish); Accessed May 15, 2013
- ↑ a b Dogs Have No Hell ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the pages of the Midnight Sun Film Festival ; Accessed May 15, 2013
